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A History of the Mediterranean Air War, 1940-1945: Volume Three: Tunisia and the end in Africa, November 1942 - May 1943
Christopher Shores
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Description for A History of the Mediterranean Air War, 1940-1945: Volume Three: Tunisia and the end in Africa, November 1942 - May 1943
Hardback. The third volume in this series returns to November 1942 to explain the background to the first major Anglo-American venture - Operation Torch, the invasion of French North Africa. It deals with the fratricidal combats which followed the initial landings in Morocco and Algeria for several days. Num Pages: 680 pages. BIC Classification: 1QRM; 3JJH; HBG; HBLW; HBWQ; JWG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 250 x 306 x 52. Weight in Grams: 2096.
The third volume in this series returns to November 1942 to explain the background to the first major Anglo-American venture - Operation Torch, the invasion of French North Africa. It deals with the fratricidal combats which followed the initial landings in Morocco and Algeria for several days. It then considers the efforts made, unsuccessfully in the event, to reach northern Tunisia before the Germans and Italians could get there to forestall the possibility of an attack from the west on the rear of the Afrika Korps forces, then beginning their retreat from El Alamein. The six months of hard ... Read more
The third volume in this series returns to November 1942 to explain the background to the first major Anglo-American venture - Operation Torch, the invasion of French North Africa. It deals with the fratricidal combats which followed the initial landings in Morocco and Algeria for several days. It then considers the efforts made, unsuccessfully in the event, to reach northern Tunisia before the Germans and Italians could get there to forestall the possibility of an attack from the west on the rear of the Afrika Korps forces, then beginning their retreat from El Alamein. The six months of hard ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Grub Street
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
736
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781910690000
SKU
V9781910690000
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99-4
About Christopher Shores
Christopher Shores began by writing the occasional book about military aviation, then quickened the pace as he grew older. By now, readers and reviewers are hard-pressed to keep up with him. Meanwhile, he pursued a career as a land surveyor and director of one of Europe's largest firms of property advisers.
Reviews for A History of the Mediterranean Air War, 1940-1945: Volume Three: Tunisia and the end in Africa, November 1942 - May 1943
...with publication of the latest volume, we're once again poised at the point where it's time to begin moving across the Mediterranean to tell the story of the invasion of Sicily
and events leading up to the landings
as seen from an air-centric perspective. Given the excellence of the History of the Mediterranean Air War series, and volume three in particular, readers ... Read more
and events leading up to the landings
as seen from an air-centric perspective. Given the excellence of the History of the Mediterranean Air War series, and volume three in particular, readers ... Read more